ESS is attempting to back out of the dyno event they themselves requested?

ESS is attempting to back out of the dyno event they themselves requested?

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ESS is attempting to back out of the dyno event they themselves requested?

Roman at ESS is now attempting to back out of the tuner dyno day shootout. I would like to remind everyone, ESS requested this dyno comparison themselves and asked BimmerBoost to schedule it. Now that the date is nearing, ESS is going back on their word at the last minute

I received this e-mail from Roman:

This was my response:

We have over a half dozen companies waiting on ESS. BMS has agreed and has been patiently waiting. MHP agreed although the date change now inconvenience them. Gintani agreed and said they would accept the date change for ESS. OE Tuning agreed and said they accept the date change to wait for ESS. Powerchip said they do not mind the date change and look forward to it. Vishnu has agreed in proxy and we also have GIAC representation. G-power is ready with their supercharger representation.

BimmerBoost has worked tirelessly to make this event happen at substantial cost as any of these companies can attest. We have been on the phones and e-mailing back and forth for what is almost 4 months now.

ESS requested this event, led everyone on, and now is backing down from their own challenge. BimmerBoost has considerable cost tied to the event and will not simply let it go. DC Performance has a large amount of revenue dependent on the event. Literally dozens of people, companies will be hurt financially and inconvenienced by ESS not honoring its own request.

We would like the BMW community to encourage ESS to participate as they had agreed, please contact Roman and make it known you would like to see the event take place as planned:

good product? if someone just entered the S65 tuning world, all they would see is the dyno manipulating, falsely promised numbers, and just a shady company in general

I make a distinction between products and customer service. Products like their tune and supercharger are ok. People seem to be happy with them. CS includes representing yourself honestly and it seems that ESS is shying away from this. Shady? Perhaps, I have no dealings with them yet. They aren't doing themselves any favors by pulling these stunts. I just cannot understand why.

It's funny how people on the MFest boards who have their own agenda accuse you of trying to throw ESS under the bus

By allowing ESS to showcase their product against others at the same place, same time? Throw ESS under the bus? I tried to buy the ESS blower. I even considered their stage 3. I'm not tied to any tuning company, I buy the best products available, period.

What agenda is there in letting them tune the same car others tune and compare on a third party dyno? They demanded a third party dynojet and they got it. Their work was supposed to speak for itself. They are the ones who said that is what they wanted to do

It's hard to dispute hard facts. The emails are pretty clear about where ESS stood before, back in May. Sticky acted on those conversations, and did a bang up job of collecting all of the respective tuners to have a proper shootout (and representation for those companies that couldn't make it).

The more I see the associations that some of the vendors have with/against each other, the more it irritates the living hell out of me.

Hide behind whatever you want, but facts are facts. Man up or walk away crying.

Why didn't they at least show the decency of saying no from the beginning instead of encouraging it and asking for it? They are the ones who started this and said they wanted a friendly dyno comparison to alleviate the dyno talk. How am I the bad guy? I kept my word, they didn't keep theirs. How can they not be responsible for stringing people along for months only to back out at the last minute?

You know yourself how much time I have put into this. You have put in an incredible amount of time as well. I can't believe a company can disrespect the entire tuning industry like this. What ever happened to honor and character?

They have a third party dyno. They seem to think I'm running the dyno or something, I'm not, DC Performance is. I'm not in charge of that, all I am doing is reporting the results and I have been working my ass off to get everyone possible to attend the event ESS asked for. Everyone said yes... but only one backed down.

Weak excuse imo. Sticky isn't going to be operating the equipment so what do you care if he organized it or not? Besides if that was a problem you should have stated that from the very beginning not that last minute its not like he just now got his Gintani kit so get real. Besides how would that possibly affect the outcome if he has no control of the testing equipment? It wouldn't make a difference if he did it or I did it or mike did it or you did it so I don't get where you're coming from sorry. Quit acting like ESS's $#@! don't stink and get out there and do your thing or get ran the $#@! over by the competition its real simple.

$#@! it. Just buy their tune. They already know the outcome, thats why they are not coming.

If this is what it takes, so be it.

We will get proxy representation but before that I will continue to attempt to do whatever I can to get ESS to agree.

They want yet another date? Fine, they will get it. They want a third party? Fine, they don't have to deal with me in any fashion, they can talk to DC Performance as Powerchip has been doing. Wayne has actually been a superb business man, grabbing the competition by the balls and calling up DC, who will be running it, to see exactly what is up. Why ESS can't discuss the procedures with the company actually responsible for running the equipment, reading it, and watching the tuners is beyond me.

You guys should step away from the keyboards and look at what is happening here. You've got one guy who says "hey, let's do a dyno day maybe sometime in summer" Then you've got another guy who wants to make a name for himself who says "yeah, let's do it." Then without so much as a single email going back and forth, the guy who needs the credibility sets this thing up and doesn't even bother to check if the dates are OK. He sets a date, books hotel rooms, then calls out the vendor who never promised to show up in the first place and was never even consulted if the date was OK. The most he got out of ESS was HOPE to be there SOMETIME in summer. Well summer is three months long, and if that's the sole basis of Sticky's "legal claim" that ESS should be there, then I guess ESS has until September 20th to show up. Sorry to break up your little bashing party with some common sense -- you may now return to your regularly scheduled pre-programmed thoughts.

Excuse me, not a single e-mail?

Originally Posted by Sticky

Ok, I understand you are busy no need to confirm the exactly date yet. But you do agree to a friendly dyno comparison? Your E92 M3 tune vs. others, Your SC vs. others, and how about your N54 tune as well?

Absolutely! We have been wanting to do this since day 1, fair and independent comparisons is what the public needs. This way we know exactly what is what under the exact same conditions. Do you have a dyno facility in mind that could work? We prefer DynoJet as neither dyno or drf files can be manipulated if that is cool with you? We also have to rig up some sort of fuel extraction system so we can empty and refill cars from the same pump before testing to eliminate octane variables. Boost logging is also a must imo.

-Asbjorn Bohn

What are you talking about? I ask, point blank, do you agree.

The response: Absolutely!

With a freaking exclamation point. Holy crap man, does Absolutely! from ESS mean, oh, just kidding, we are going to back out at the last minute? Yes, your common sense is quite impressive.

ESS never bothered to provide a concrete date, just said summer, and left the rest up to me to organize. So, I made two attempts at a date even though that wasn't good enough. I rescheduled, that wasn't good enough. They never had any intention of following through! This can still be done if they actually stop dodging what date would work. I will do yet another reschedule in the attempt of yet again bridging any gap and providing ESS with anything they request out of respect for their wishes. You can keep making childish personal attacks, I'm trying to accommodate.

I don't see the problem here, I'm not operating any equipment, a third party is exactly as they requested. If they have any demands, they can deal with that same third party who will be monitoring the tuners and providing the dyno results. So maybe you should know what you are talking about before providing nonsense, not common sense.

ESS just seems to carry this attitude like their $#@! don't stink and that no one else can tune like that can and that every other company should bow down. Which is funny cause they haven't earned that reputation no matter how many people bought their kits.

I donít want to take this thread off topic but .. Really?

I understand the dyno story and all but is there any other company out there that is running a supercharger system that is not running meth or colder plugs for the S65? No ... You need a pretty damn good tune to be boosting the S65 at 7.5 PSI with no meth and with the stock plugs. Please donít think that Iím against the use of meth. Iím all for it and will be running it myself soon. All Iím saying is that these guys have a really good tune and a really good product.

Originally Posted by Sticky

Would you be willing?

I'm not 100% sure but I know a few guys at Matson and I've already called them to see how much the cost would be. I'm not to sure about work but I can also talk to Long Tran to see if he would be willing to baby sit my car for me

I'm not 100% sure but I know a few guys at Matson and I've already called them to see how much the cost would be. I'm not to sure about work but I can also talk to Long Tran to see if he would be willing to baby sit my car for me

I understand, cool that at least you are willing to explore the possibility

I understand the dyno story and all but is there any other company out there that is running a supercharger system that is not running meth or colder plugs for the S65? No ... You need a pretty damn good tune to be boosting the S65 at 7.5 PSI with no meth and with the stock plugs. Please don’t think that I’m against the use of meth. I’m all for it and will be running it myself soon. All I’m saying is that these guys have a really good tune and a really good product.

I understand what you are saying and yes their product is good. However, every other company out there is running/selling SC kits that don't use Meth! It's called "options." There is a Gintani car running 7.5psi or more, on 91 octane, NO METH, Stock plugs and he has for a long time.

I also ran stock plugs on 91+Meth, in fact all of the OTS, (stock internals) Gintani cars are running stock plugs. From what I know, there is no ESS car in the states running 7.5psi on 91 octane, or 93. One car has ran 8.5psi, but he runs 100 octane at that boost level. As you know, if you want more "reliable" power you're going to have to run higher octane / race fuel or meth to keep it safer with any kit, it's not about how good the tuning is at that point , although a good tune will certainly keep your motor safer.

I understand what you are saying and yes their product is good. However, every other company out there is running/selling SC kits that don't use Meth! It's called "options." There is a Gintani car running 7.5psi or more, on 91 octane, NO METH, Stock plugs and he has for a long time.

I also ran stock plugs on 91+Meth, in fact all of the OTS, (stock internals) Gintani cars are running stock plugs. From what I know, there is no ESS car in the states running 7.5psi on 91 octane, or 93. One car has ran 8.5psi, but he runs 100 octane at that boost level. As you know, if you want more "reliable" power you're going to have to run higher octane / race fuel or meth to keep it safer with any kit, it's not about how good the tuning is at that point , although a good tune will certainly keep your motor safer.

Why cant you just do it without them? Looks like they have something to hide, so just do the shootout and note ESS did not participate cause they were scarred lol

Well because ESS is the one who got this whole thing going in the first place. It was all due to their request. Much of the main attraction was to have Powerchip go up against ESS since this stemmed from earlier issues. They said they had nothing to hide, well, they are hiding.

ESS agreed to a third party comparison that I would organize, they lied. They showed absolutely no respect to their fellow tuners or for my considerable time and cost.

In retrospect, I don't think ESS actually ever expected me to keep my word and manage to pull this off. I called their bluff so to speak by actually managing to arrange this with all the main parties. That is why they asked to organize it, they didn't think it actually could/would be done.